Posted on 04/18/2018 8:27:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An explosion of political assassinations in Mexico has cast a pall over nationwide elections slated for July 1, when voters will choose their next president and fill a slew of down-ballot posts.
At least 82 candidates and office holders have been killed since the electoral season kicked off in September, making this the bloodiest presidential race in recent history, according to a tally by Etellekt, a security consultancy based in Mexico City, and Reuters research.
Four were slain in the past week alone. They include Juan Carlos Andrade Magana, who was running for re-election as mayor of the hamlet of Jilotlan de los Dolores, located in Mexico's western Jalisco state. His bullet-ridden body was discovered Sunday morning inside his Toyota Prius on the edge of town; Andrade had just attended a funeral. State prosecutors are investigating, but have made no arrests.
The victims hail from a variety of political parties, large and small, and most were running for local offices far removed from the national spotlight. The vast majority were shot. Most cases remain unsolved, the killers' motives unclear.
But security experts suspect drug gangs are driving much of the bloodshed. With a record of about 3,400 mostly local offices up for grabs in July, Mexico's warring cartels appear to be jostling for influence in city halls nationwide, according to Vicente Sanchez, a professor of public administration at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana.
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At least 82 candidates and office holders have been killed since the electoral season kicked off in September,
Yup.
Very much so.
This is the culture that the Bush League Republicans insist that we allow to colonize our country.
Shithole country.
We’re going to have to eventually occupy Mexico.
Mexico posted a record of nearly 29,000 homicides last year, attributed mainly to organized crime and fallout from the drug war.
Respectfully disagree.
A strong defense of our southern border is preferable to a protracted military campaign in Mexico. The Mexicans are fiercely proud people, and even if the central government were to submit, the population would not.
(Also, unfortunately, Mexico has already occupied parts of the USA)
I just think eventually Mexico is going to be in a state of total anarchy, and if that happens there isn’t a wall that will be able to keep them out.
Seeds of the current mayhem were planted more than a decade ago when the Mexican government, backed by the United States, set out to topple the heads of Mexico’s leading drug cartels.
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But the crackdown splintered established crime syndicates into dozens of competing gangs.
The choice is centralized corruption or localized corruption. Neither is good but choose...................
I wonder if the lying media “forgot” to mention that most of the killed politicians are from the right, like Venezueluan political victims.
Given that leftists have always resorted to blood and violence against their political opponents, it’s entirely possible.
Build the wall!
End the illegal occupation and deport all illegal aliens.
I’m not sure that’s true. Mostly it’s about drugs.
Well, I am surprised to see them maintain a pace of killings that exceeds that allegedly used against those who offended the Clintons.
Poor America. So far from God, and so close to America.
Quick! Let’s build a wall between us and that shithole country.
Mexico is already occupying big chinks of the USA.
chunks
Uh oh, the ChiComs aren't going to like that, LOL.
But Mexico has strict gun control laws how can this be? Is there a Mexican David Hogg that Mexicans can proudly March behind?
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